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From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] Revert "ext4: remove ac->ac_found >
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On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 03:45:52PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > 
> > Since this patch fixes a regression I think it should ideally go in
> > Linux 6.4
> 
> Ted can speak up for himself, but maybe this might speed things up:
> 
> A lot of maintainers in a case like this want fixes (like this)
> submitted separately from other changes (like the rest of this series).

While it's nice to do that in the future (since I would have noticed
this earlier, it could have gone into my regression fixes push to
Linus last week), in this particular case I've already noted this
particular issue, and per the discussion in the last weekly ext4 video
conference chat, I will be reordering the pashes so I can send a
secondary regression fix to Linus very shortly.

Thanks,

						- Ted